Most Significantly, on Apr 9, 2021, SCIENCEX.COM wrote that A unique methane-eating community of bacteria is living within the bark of a typical Australian tree species paperbark. These microbial communities were abundant, thriving, and mitigated about one-third of the substantial methane emissions from paperbark that would have otherwise ended up in the atmosphere. Scientists discovered the bark of paperbark trees provides a unique home for methane-oxidizing bacteria that consumes methane and turns it into carbon dioxide, a far less potent greenhouse gas.
Within wetland forests, scientists assumed most tree methane "treethane" emissions originate from the underlying soils. The methane is transported upwards via the tree roots and stems, then through to the atmosphere via their bark. This discovery will revolutionize how we view methane-emitting trees and the novel microbes living within them. Only through understanding why, how, which, when, and where trees emit the most methane, we more effectively plant forests that effectively draw down carbon dioxide while avoiding unwanted methane emissions.
PHYS.ORG, published on Mar 24, 2021, A new study shows that if we can keep the population fixed at current levels, the risk of population displacement due to river floods rise by ~50% for each degree of global warming. However, if the population increases, the relative global flood displacement risk is significantly higher.
And, SCIENCEFOCUS.COM, printed on Apr 9, 2021, Devastating environmental disasters have a way of bringing people together – and scientists have found the same may also hold for monkeys. New research has found that monkeys living in Cayo Santiago, Puerto Rico, made more friends and became more tolerant of each other after a major hurricane ravaged the island in 2017. Three years since hurricane devastation, the monkeys appear to have maintained the connections formed after the blow– by sitting next to each other or grooming.
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